Letters

Shubael Little Pioneer Village once again had a wonderful open house the third weekend of October. A survey at the gate showed that 50 percent of the cars entering had not been here before. Thanks to so many, including the Perry County News, for helping us reach so many new people. We estimate 1,000 guests visited the two days. The following week we hosted 300 school children, teachers and chaperones.

The Lafayette Spring Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution would like to thank everyone who helped with the Perry County First Family program. There were over 439 applications turned in and confirmed as Perry County First Families.

While I do not typically respond to letters in a tit-for-tat manner, I must thank Mr. Gray for his excellent reply (“GOP had hand in controversies,” Oct. 27 issue) to my original letter (“Vote for Democrats is vote for Obama record,” Oct. 20 issue).

In his bloviating, extended rant he perfectly illustrates the liberal mindset. No. 1, distort and confuse the facts while mixing in a few actual truths. No. 2 and most importantly, blame Bush.

On Oct. 23, Cannelton elementary students and families hosted the 69th annual Parent-Teacher Organization Fall Festival. We had a tremendous turnout and a very successful festival. The Cannelton Elementary School PTO would like to thank the entire faculty, staff, students, parents, grandparents, guardians, community, volunteers and the following individuals and businesses.

At William Tell Elementary, we recognize the value of celebrating our school community, with a focus on family activities and community outreach. Thanks to support from United Way of Perry County and Title 1, we are able to employ a family outreach coordinator who is responsible for community outreach, such as the following:

Volunteer community readers are community members who read a book each month to a class of students and revisit that same class each month in order to establish a relationship with the students.

Editor’s Note: Thursday was the last issue for letters to the editor of a political nature. In keeping with past practice, however, candidates are allowed to respond directly to previous letters. The News agreed to publish this letter from Jason Hoch, candidate for prosecutor, in response to Thursday’s letter from Perry County Prosecutor Rod Acchiardo.

I am engaged to Chris Coyle and I wanted to take a moment to speak to you about my family and his campaign.

I knew that when Chris decided to run for office, it was not an individual decision, but a family one. It was not a decision we made lightly. I am not originally from Perry County. I relocated my family here because of all that Perry County has to offer. A large part of that was the school system.

I have learned through various contacts that the current Perry County Prosecutor announced that he would convene a panel forming a grand jury to examine whether “Sheriff Lee Chestnut or any of his subordinates should be indicted for criminal misconduct in connection with the death of the young woman” identified as Whitney N. Turner.